Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Topeka, Kansas, United States

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

The conventional explosives aboard detonated and the nuclear payload ruptured and dispersed which resulted in radioactive contamination. Six crew members ejected safely but 27-year-old co-pilot Leonard Svitenko who did not have an ejection seat was killed while trying to bail out.
(21 January 1968)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1990

There are 3385 births, 3950 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2085 other events about 5737 people in 6452 places until today.

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.

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Topeka, Kansas, United States.

Related events:

Saturday 22nd of July 1893 (+) — Psychiatrist Karl Menninger is born.
Saturday 17th of April 1937 (-) — FBI Special Agent Wimberly Baker dies from injuries after being shot by suspected bank robbers Glen Applegate and Robert Suhay at the downtown post office the day before.
Wednesday 18th of July 1990 (-) — Psychiatrist Karl Menninger dies of abdominal cancer.